I'm rereading stormbringer at the moment, and I find it incredibly interesting how you can see Verlaines sanity slipping from codes 1 and 2, to 3 and 4.
In the first 2 codes, he is incredibly reserved, yes, we see him do some very messed up things, but he's arrogant almost. He is very sure of himself and what he wants to do. He knows why he came all this way for chuuya and feels no remorse regarding the things he's doing.
Codes 3 and 4 have a tone shift, Verlaine starts to feel guilt, begins to be unsure of what he's doing. All leading up to his moment with rimbaud.
I don't know, I found that interesting I love verlaine














